After Joel Schumacher's "Batman Forever" was released in theaters in 1995, it quickly became one of the highest-grossing ...

Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever is the most underrated entry in the franchise thanks to excellent production design and Val ...

A missing chapter of the Dark Knight’s cinematic history needs to be restored, and Joel Schumacher's Batman legacy brightened ...

Joel Schumacher, the eclectic and brazen filmmaker who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen in “St. Elmo's Fire” and steering the Batman ...

Joel Schumacher, a journeyman director who shepherded a new generation of young stars to the big screen in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and steered the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory ...

Today it was reported that director Joel Schumacher has sadly passed away after a year-long battle with cancer. The 80-year-old filmmaker was the man responsible for such cinematic classics as St ...

Joel Schumacher, costume designer-turned-director of films including “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Lost Boys” and “Falling Down,” as well as “Batman” films, died in New York City on ...

Joel Schumacher died today at age 80, of cancer. In the motion picture biz, he was lots of things: a writer, a costume designer, and a director. His movies as director — which ranged from 1990s ...

Schumacher’s flash and style may well have rescued the franchise. (And then, two years later, nearly sank it.) By Jason Bailey When news broke on Monday of the director Joel Schumacher’s death ...

Joel Schumacher— the prolific director behind St. Elmo's Fire, Flatliners and two Batman films— passed away in New York City after a battle with cancer. He was 80.

“Warner Bros. took a big chance with this movie, and with me, because they really didn’t know what the heck I was doing,” chuckles a now 80-year-old Joel Schumacher, by his fireplace at home ...

By Dave Itzkoff Joel Schumacher, the director whose visually inventive and sometimes subversive movies — including the coming-of-age drama “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the vampire action-comedy ...